83 - Prohibition of unlawful killing, taking others’ property and violating their honour

1. Your blood and your property are forbidden to you to violate in the same way as the sanctity of this day of yours, in this month of yours, in this city of yours. 2. All claims pertaining to the days of Ignorance [i.e. pre-Islamic] are under my two feet and invalid. 3. Vengeance killings of pre-Islamic days are written off. The first killing I write off is that of Ibn Rabī‘ah ibn al-Ḥārith: he was being nursed in the clan of Banī Sa‘d, but the Hudhayl tribe killed him. 4. The usury of pre-Islamic days is hereby written off, and the first usury I thus write off is the one belonging to us [i.e. his clan], the usury of ‘Abbās ibn ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib. It is all written off. 5. Fear God in your treatment of women. You take them in trust granted by God, and they become lawful to you by God’s word. 6. They have a duty towards you that they do not admit into your homes anyone you dislike. If they do this, you may discipline them without severity. Your duty towards them is to feed and clothe them according to what is reasonable. 7. I am leaving with you what ensures you shall never go astray if you hold on to it: God’s Book. 8. You shall be asked about me; so what will you say? They said: We testify that you have delivered your message and given sound counsel. He pointed with his forefinger to the sky and to the people, and said: ‘My Lord, bear witness, My lord, bear witness’ three times.